The right way to git clone a subversion repo...

2014-01-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I recently took over package maintenance for Audacity. So the first thing I want to do is clone their development tree, create a branch from the latest release and star tracking patches against it as needed. The Audacity team uses Subversion, while I prefer Git, so I attempted to use Git to clone

Re: The right way to git clone a subversion repo...

2014-01-08 Thread Dan Horák
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:27:42 -0500 Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: I recently took over package maintenance for Audacity. So the first thing I want to do is clone their development tree, create a branch from the latest release and star tracking patches against it as needed. The

Re: The right way to git clone a subversion repo...

2014-01-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:38:14PM +0100, Dan Horák wrote: in my experience it can take hours to clone large SVN repos (similar to 13k revisions in audacity), I usually use git svn clone --stdlayout svn_url but it should be equivalent to your procedure somewhere under .git you should see a

Re: The right way to git clone a subversion repo...

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Stahl
On 08/01/14 14:27, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: The problem is that it's been HOURS and Git hasn't finished cloning the tree. It's the third step which is taking forever to complete. I left it to run overnight (10 hours) and it never finished. I paused it, came to work, resumed it and it's still

Re: The right way to git clone a subversion repo...

2014-01-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:12:08PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: On 08/01/14 14:27, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: The problem is that it's been HOURS and Git hasn't finished cloning the tree. It's the third step which is taking forever to complete. I left it to run overnight (10 hours) and it